Dax Shepard and Will Arnett are to star in the comedy You Are Going to Prison , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The film is based on the book by Jim Hogshire, which Bob Odenkirk directs. Odenkirk was the host in the...
Comic book writer Jeph Loeb is to write the live action feature version of the late Will Eisner's seminal superhero The Spirit , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Eisner created The Spirit in 1940 as a newspaper...
Best-selling Japanese manga comic book series Monster is going to be adapted for the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Monster , written by author Naoki Urasawa, is a psychological thriller that tells the...
Michael Bay is looking to direct live-action The Transformers with Steven Spielberg exec producing, according to Variety. Scheduled for a Thanksgiving 2006 release. Shooting will begin in the fall. The Transformers...
Famke Janssen has signed on to return in X-Men 3 , even though here character Jean Grey was killed in the previous movie. Directed by Matthew Vaughn and Hugh Jackman making a deal to return as Wolverine, and Halle Berry,...
Robert Redford has joined the voice cast for the live-action/CGI Charlotte's Web , according to Variety. Redford will voice Ike, the arachnophobic horse who panics and faints at the mere sight of Charlotte. Julia...
Frank Langella is to star as Perry White in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns instead of Hugh Laurie, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Laurie bowed out because of a scheduling conflict with his TV series, 'House.'...
Producer Chris Moore is to make his directorial debut on Race With the Devil , a remake of a 1975 horror thriller, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The original revolved around two couples that head off to Colorado...
Catherine Zeta Jones says she agreed to reprise her role as Elena in The Legend Of Zorro because she loves fencing, according to Ananova. She said she became interested in the sport while she made The Mask Of Zorro in...
Paris Hilton and Jason Mewes are to star in the comedy Bottoms Up , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Described as in the vein of Swingers , the comedy drama tells the story of a Midwestern bartender (Mewes) who finds...
A fourth installment of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is in production which is said to be computer animated, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Kevin Munroe has signed to write and direct. The fourth film in the...
Nick Cannon ( Drumline ) is to star in the buddy action-comedy Extra Protection , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Cannon wrote the script and also will executive produce. The story follows a male and female FBI...
Vince Vaughn is set to star in an untitled David O. Russell-directed and -written comedy, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Vaughn will play the wiseass host of a radio call-in show he runs with his producer...
Alfonso Cuaron ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ) is to replace M. Night Shyamalan as the director of Life of Pi , according to Variety. Studio appears to be breaking with Shyamalan over his decision to make...
Nickelodeon are in talks to buy the rights to the graphic novel Fire Breather , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The comic book writers are Phil Hester and Andy Kuhn. Published by Image Comics, this story centers on...
Writer Ben Ramsey is to write the adaptation of the James Patterson bestseller Roses Are Red , according to Variety. Roses Are Red features the homicide detective Alex Cross. Plot centers on Cross hunting the Mastermind,...
Kristen Bell ( Veronica Mars ) and newcomer Steve Talley will star in Pulse , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Commercial director Jim Sonzero is making his feature directorial debut on the horror film. Producer...
Castle Hill Prods. has acquired the U.S. rights to Perlasca , Alberto Negrin's drama about Giorgio Perlasca, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Perlasca was an Italian businessman who passed himself off as the Spanish...
Warner Bros. Pictures has purchased the coming-of-age adventure The Treehouse , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Writers Ron Friedman and Steve Bencich wrote the script with Wes Ball making his feature directing...
Skander Halim ( Pretty Persuasion ) is set to make his feature directing debut on horror thriller The Perfect Ghost , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Halim also is writing the script for the project, which follows a...
Sam Rockwell and Amanda Peet are to star in the Jesse Perertz directed Snow Angels , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Emily Mortimer has an offer for a role. Adapted from the novel by Stewart O'Nan, the story...
Gong Li ( 2046 ) has signed on to Michael Mann's Miami Vice , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx are respectively starring as Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs in the big-screen...
Josh Duhamel John Stockwell ( Blue Crush ) is set to direct as his next film the thriller Turistas , according to Variety. Turistas follows six college students who, while backpacking across Brazil, get stranded in the...
Neal Marshall Stevens ( 13 Ghosts ) has sold his horror spec script Superstition to Paramount Pictures, according to Variety. Story, based on the novel by Brit mystery writer David Ambrose, centers on a scientifically...
Jessica Biel and Rufus Sewell ('7th Heaven')are joining Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti in The Illusionist , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Writer-director Neil Burger's $17 million turn-of-the-century drama begins...
Russell Crowe and Ron Howard are in talks to star and direct in The Power of Duff , according to the Variety. Negotiations are just getting under way for Crowe to play a TV news anchor whose grief over his father's death...
Laura Dern and Jared Leto have signed on to star alongside James Gandolfini, John Travolta and Salma Hayek in Lonely Hearts , according to Variety. Lonely Hearts is based on the true story of a detective who tracked down...
Paramount has tapped Mark Waters ( Freaky Friday ) to direct its remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty , according to Variety Waters will direct from a script by Richard LaGravanese. The remake of 1947's "Walter...
Dustin Hoffman is in talks to play the lead role in the comedy Father Knows Less , according to Variety. Father Knows Less follows a hugely successful exec already on his second marriage who finds himself in charge of...
Tony Scott is in talks to direct the romantic thriller Deja Vu for producer Jerry Bruckheimer, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The screenplay centers on an FBI agent who travels back in time to save a woman from a...
Rainbow Six (Book Cover)Zack Snyder ( Dawn of the Dead ) is to direct and develop Rainbow Six , based on the Tom Clancy novel, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a CIA operative who leaves the...
Courtney Love is attached to star as Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace in a bio-picture Lovelace , according to Variety. Movie will trace Lovelace's life from 17 until she died in 2002 at 53. Inside Deep Throat producer...
Vera Farmiga is to play the female lead opposite Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson in Martin Scorsese's The Departed , says Variety. Based on a trilogy of popular Hong Kong crime films directed by Lau...
M. Night Shyamalan is teaming up with Warner Bros. Pictures to make his next feature Lady in the Water , according to Variety. The story, written by Shyamalan, concerns a building super who finds a sea nymph in his...
Viola Davis has signed up to star opposite 50 Cent in Paramount and MTV Films action-adventure Locked and Loaded , says Variety. The feature, helmed by Jim Sheridan, is based on the tale of a drug dealer who turns away...
Warner Independent Pictures and Mission Entertainment are set to remake the 1996 Andre Techine-directed thriller Thieves , says Variety. The feature will be an Americanized version of the original film. The new version...
Ron Howard is to direct The Serpent and the Eagle , which is about the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520, according to Variety. When Howard left the The Alamo but was still intrigued by the history of Mexico, which...
Cheryl Hines ('Curb Your Enthusiasm') is set to star with Robin Williams in the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed comedy RV , according to Variety. Hines, who plays Larry David's beleaguered wife in the HBO series, will play the...
Paul W.S. Anderson ( Alien vs. Predator )is to write and direct Paramount's Deathrace 3000 , a remake of the cult Roger Corman movie Deathrace 2000 , according to Variety. The Paul Bartel-directed original is considered...
Music video director Darren Lynn Bousman to direct the horror sequel Saw 2 , according to Variety. Bousman will face a breakneck production schedule. Principal photography is set to begin May 2 in Toronto for a Halloween...
Disney has signed director Michael Lembeck for The Santa Clause 3 , according to Variety. Tim Allen will is going to return, and will start shooting in November for a Christmas 2006 release. In Santa Clause 3 Santa, aka...
Sideways star Thomas Haden Church has been cast as the new villain in Sony Pictures SpiderMan 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Church will join Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst, stars of the previous two movies....
Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn is set to replace Bryan Singer in 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment's X-Men 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. Bryan Singer, director of the previous two X-Men movies,...
Ben Affleck is to make his directional debut in Touchstone Pictures Gone, Baby, Gone , according to the Hollywood Reporter. The feature is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane. It follows a pair of private detectives in a...
Jason Bateman and Amy Poehler have signed on to star in DreamWorks Pictures The Heartbreak Kid , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a man (Bateman) who is convinced that he has finally met the right girl...
Atlantic Streamline have bought the rights to Thomas Thonson's dark comedy Rockwell , says the Hollywood Reporter. The story centers on a troubled teen who believes the only cure for his suburban angst is the acquisition...
Eddie Murphy is to star in the action comedy Johnny Blaze , according to Variety. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have been hired to write the project. Murphy would play the...
Ryan Merriman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are to star in Cheating Death: Final Destination 3 , according to the Hollywood Reporter. James Wong who directed 2000's Final Destination , is back in the directing chair for...
Ewan McGregor says he would love to make a sequel Moulin Rouge 2 , according to Ananova. McGregor says he was so impressed by the surreal filming experience created by director Baz Luhrmann, he is keen to reprise his...
Director Harold Ramis and Topher Grace both join Universal romantic comedy based on the popular online service Friendster. Grace sparked to the chance to play a character looking for love while navigating technology such...